25 december 2009, that was the year that was...

Tuesday 5th January 2010

So work went stellar then a little awry, some hairs went grey, we bought a house and so decided to settle the while in manchester, and we began to forget that the sun can shine two days on the run, but learnt that life can be bright even without it – for a while at least. In the wider world, obama must take top billing, and I’m not disappointed – nothing ever changes overnight, but change has happened and the best is yet to come. 2009 was though a year of failure – with well over a $1trillion poured into the banks, rewriting capitalism’s first law of live by the sword and die by it, and with little change asked or gained. At the same time the much more important nettle of bailing out the world was emphatically not grasped. We still think a low carbon future can be achieved at little expense, without compulsion and that it will even boost economic growth. Maybe 2010 will be the year we discover that unfortunately bailing it out will be hugely expensive, involve major cultural and behavioural change in the western world, and is probably incompatible with eternal growth. That doesn’t mean though it shouldn’t be a very happy year indeed..